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Argentina Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Argentina
Bariloche
This is a top pick! On the advice of numerous other travellers, we headed to Patagonia from Buenos Aires. The most northerly part mind you, but chilly enough to get the idea! Patanuk Hostel is right on the lake and we realised pretty early on, the sunsets are ...
dont cry for me....
This is a top pick! ... and generally exercised the Homer Simpson philosophy of, "share the wealth". Cancer sadly took her life at 33. Left the museum singing "don´t cry for me Argentina". Uruguay, tomorrow, here we come! Cooper Out Love Dan and ...
Downhill with a following wind
This is a top pick! I left Puente de Inca and whizzed down the Argentian side very very quickly, gloriously realsing my considerable gravity investment of the previous day. The scenery on this side was something else - beautiful reds and greens lending everything a warm ...
Lago General Vintter to Los Antiguos
This is a top pick! So I woke up this morning with everything completely the same as the day before, except I was engaged!! Unfortunately we couldn't linger on that thought for long because we had to get up, pack away the tent and make breakfast. Our aim today was to ...
Cordoba, Argentina
This is a top pick! ... ?" I asked. "Oh. We call them Hippies" Got it... thanks. Next up: Mendoza - the heart of Argentina's wine country and back to the Andes. Argentines are addicted to a drink called matte. It is an herbal tea ...
Feeling the force of the falls in Iguazu
This is a top pick! ... the Brazilian side and the Argentinean side which give you different perspectives of the area, 1/3 belonging to Brazil and 2/3 to Argentina. The 'Devils Throat' is the most magnificent section where a crescent shaped, 82-metre-high, 150-metre-wide ...
Not the only one
This is a top pick! I dragged myself away from the toilet, having spent quite enough time in the accursed Villa Dolores, to head up what according to my guidebook was "the least developed valley in the Sierras de Cordoba for tourism," which leads me to wonder what the ...
Rio Gallegos
This is a top pick! Dean: Our long trip down to Ushuaia was broken up at Rio Gallegos, as the connecting bus down to Ushuaia was full and so we have to wait until tomorrow (Monday) to continue south. Not really a problem as after 19 hours on a coach we are really ready ...
Are Cow-Collisions Covered by the Damage Waiver?
This is a top pick! Next time I rent a car in Argentina, I'm going to make sure to ask if cow-collisions are covered by the damage waiver. One of the best parts of Bariloche was getting away from it to check out all the tiny villages nestled along alpine lakes in the ...
San Juan
This is a top pick! We may have only been there for six hours but it deserves an entry in itself. After an uncomfortable nine hour bus ride from Cordoba, we got to San Juan at 8am. We just missed a connecting bus to our destination, St. Augustin by thirty minutes, ...
Salta, Argentina
This is a top pick! ... prices remained the same. BMWs and Volvo prices did double or even triple, but things produced within Argentina (e.g. steak) did not. The only major thing Argentinians noticed was the influx of tourists capitalizing on the ...
Change of plans!!
This is a top pick! ... but not so great on the purse strings! Anyway... we got on a bus from San Pedro de Atacama that took us over the order into Argentina, and then rode another 12 hours or so to Salta... Today, we got a cable car up to the highest point in the city to ...
Little Switzerland
This is a top pick! After an overnight bus to the city of Neuquen, we jumped on another bus to make the 6 hour drive to San Martin de los Andes. Just getting here is quite scenic and the town itself appears as if it was transported here ...
9/11
This is a top pick! ... Faustino Sarmiento died. Domingo Sarmiento was a pedagogue and a president of the country (1868-1874) who did a lot for Argentina's education, culture, and science. As of more recently, this date has another meaning even in Argentina. ...
Perito Moreno Glacier, El Calafate
This is a top pick! Unfortunately I am horribly behind and internet down here in Patagonia is too slow and expensive to update. After Nick left I flew down to Calafate in patagonia, and visited the Perito Moreno glacier yesterday. Today I took the bus to Chalten and will ...
BA Baby! (Warning far too long entry...)
This is a top pick! ... with scenes like that - it seems the people have been "revolutioning" outside it since the city was built. Don`t cry for me Argentina.. If you know me you know about my obsession with the Evita story. I was in my element being able to visit the ...
Dance Floor Nudity, All Nighters - Must Be in BA
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Flying through the woods at obnoxious speeds
This is a top pick! OK - so I have never done a "zip line" before and I had a major misconception about what it is really like. Originally I thought it would be a relaxing trip through the tops of the trees where you pull yourself hand-over-hand and check ...
Gawping at Glaciers
This is a top pick! ... soon arrived to collect us. After about one hour we arrived at a small port on the edge of Lake Argo, the largest body of water in Argentina at 1600 sq km, where we were to board our boat. I thought I had pulled a great fast one as the park entry fee ...
The most expensive shit of the trip
This is a top pick! We had a lie in today well at least we had a lie in until 7am which was nice, we had breakfast (today I tried the cheerios instead of cornflakes), still living the gastronomic dream), we got on the bus at 8am and drove for about 1.5 hours picking up ...
Oh boy! Hiking in the shadow of Mount Fitz Roy
This is a top pick! I woke up just before the alarm at 6am feeling so incredibly tired, I vowed never to let the Lady stock up on wine for a few days supply as it is always gone that night (Erica Edit: We were doing the Argentinean thing and sharing - it was ...
In and out of Malargue in 24 hours
This is a top pick! DOMINIQUE HERE: Day : 239 Temperature : 31 degrees Weather Sunny I guess it can't all go smoothly when your travelling for a year, and not every place that you find yourself in will be fantastic. It's just a little frustrating to find that we've waste a ...
Stopover
This is a top pick! A quick stopover in La Plata, about a hour down the autopista from Bs As. Not much to report, struggled into a hotel near the bus station with the beastly bag, and crashed out. Up early this morning to organise a bus (well, coach I think really) to Mar ...
Leonard Bernstein and the Fin del Mundo
This is a top pick! ... of Magellan to Tierra del Fuego, then go through the same laborious paperwork again to get out of Chile and back into Argentina. I arrived at 9pm and after a lovely lamb cordero and glass of wine with Helen and Jo I exhaustedly dragged myself ...
The Vegetarian's Nightmare
This is a top pick! ... the beef is and how much steak I am going to eat while here. And finally, I can now share the same story. Argentina is a vegetarian's nightmare!!! Every restaurant offers huge cuts of beef at bargain basement prices. And after many many months of chicken, ...
Burned and soaked, again so worth it!
This is a top pick! ... between Argentina and Brazil, the driver stops to allow some pictures. It's only a fifteen minute drive till we are at the Argentina falls entrance. I chat to Isabel for a while. She works in a pharmacy in Berlin, spent 9 weeks in Mexico recently and ...
Encounters with Sheep and 15 Stories of Ice
This is a top pick! ... hair. Lucky for my photos, I opted for the latter! I took an early morning bus from Puerto Natales to El Calafate, Argentina. It was a spontaneous decision I made the night before. My original plans were to fly back to Santiago and take a 22 hour bus ...
Beach Pub Crawls, Becoming Zeno and Being Taj
This is a top pick! Some funny times but its a busy time as I try and jam more and more places in before I need to start to think about going home... Will try and set aside a writing session in the next few ...
Back in Argentina
This is a top pick! Back in Argentina My bus from San Pedro was the most gringo-y I have so far experienced, about three quarters were backpackers heading to Salta too. Weirdly (or maybe not so weirdly considering I am not feeling particularly sociable this week), they ...
Penguins in holes?
This is a top pick! Who knew penguins lived in holes? Four of us hired a car to head to the largest penguin colony outside Antarctica. Over 350,000 penguins live in this rookery and I guess I expected to see thousands of penguins hanging out on the beach pooping ...